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Initial check in with picture of new replaced polyp! :biggrin1: Thanks Dan!
edsbeaker said:
Initial check-in
Here's my info
Tank has been up for 2 months and is now in the process of diatom bloom.
TANK SIZE: 140 gal DT with a 40gal Sump
FLOW: 2 MP40's on reefcrest- 70%, during daytime, lagoon, 70%, at nightime
FILTRATION: Reef Octopus SRO 2000 skimmer, BRS reactors 1st with Rox 0.8 carbon running 24/7, and 2nd with HC GFO, used when needed, cheato.
LIGHTING: Changing over to 2 Everglow iT 2060 early in July, presently ATI 6 X 54W dimmable sun power
FRAG PLACEMENT: Lower third portion of tank towards the center.
CORAL FOOD: Fauna Marin Ultra Zoa food, Oyster Feast, Rod's Food
FISH INHABITANTS: Heniochus D., Bangaii Cardinal, Royal Gramma, Midas Blenny, Flame Hawkfish, Purple firefish


Good luck everyone!
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Initial check in: Frag #18

TANK SIZE- 120 gal DT with dual overflows and a 30 gal sump
FLOW- 2-1400 Koralia circulation pumps
FILTRATION- Reef Octopus Diablo skimmer, carbon reactor and BIO pellets reactor
LIGHTING- 2- Full spectrum IT 2060
NOTE- Will be adding a chiller soon

FRAG PLACEMENT- Middle right side
CORAL FOOD- Government cheese (LOL) Rods food, Aquavitro fuel

TANK LIVESTOCK-
100LBS LR
2-Chromis, 1 Melanarus Wrasse, 1 pair of Platinum Clowns hosting a 15 head Torch, 1 Chevron Tang, 1 Lawnmower Blenny, 2 sand stars, 2 cleaner shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, snails
Zoas and misc corals
 
Tank: 27g marineland cube
Lighting: D120 Group Buy light (55 LED's)
Filtration: Custom pimped out sump/fuge make by Will!
Skimmer: Ebay sc65
Reactor: BRS GFO reactor
Heater: Finnex 200W titanium heater
Dosing: marine color dosing unit. Dosing Mag, Alk, and Cal
ATO: Avast marine ATO unit that plugs into my apex
Inhabitants: Mixed reef with lps, sps, and znps. Fish- a female bluestar leopard, yellow candy hogfish, geometric hawk,and a spotted mandarin.
Frag placed near center of tank on sandbed approximately 25" from lighting.

Sorry for the crappy iphone pic. I'll get better pics as we progress. The frag on the right is the chong bong.

 
What is the deadline for the initial check in? I have another day or 2 with lights out for the dreaded red slime so after that I will have pic and write up for this and the bomb diggity.
 
First post updated - Please have your initial check-in (brief tank specs, frag placement, and picture) posted by Friday July 5th.
 
Heres a crappy pic of mine
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Tank: 40 breeder
Light: 2 cc120 dimmable LEDs
Filtration: RO BH1000 and Aquaclear 70 and intank fuge
Placement: sandbed
Flow: 2 mp10's 2 koralia nanos
Fish: yellow eye kole tang, yellow tang, yellow tail blue damsel, snowflake clown, ora tiger goby, spotted mandarin dragonete, yellow coris wrasse,
Food: omega one flakes, hikari frozen foods, selcon
 
Initial check in:
65 gal mixed reef
Ever grow 2080 LED's
MP40w
SCA302 skimmer
BRS dual reactor GFO and carbon
Kalk in ATO
Frag is currently on the sand bed however will be moving up.

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I will get a better pic after the weekend. 125gal Display 55gal fuge/sump 8 39watt t-5 3 150watt MH 2 korilla #2, 1 # 4 and about 1000 to 1200gph flow from return, placement about mid tank, whatever food I throw in for the fish
 
Well, my Chong-Bong is finally opening. A bit more than my neutron bomb - but both seemed rather pissed for that past week. Oh well! Here's a picture and my system write-up:

30g Cube
Metal Halide
Only flow is from the return, but that provides quite a lot. Hopefully adding a "turtle" powerhead soon as I can track Jay down.
Running Carbon, Purigen, Chemipure
Innovative Marine "mid-size" skimer

Other inhabitants: A lot of coral (zoas, palys, acans, favia, rhodactis mushroom, pavona, ricordea flor., gonipora, sympodium, frogspawn, torch, and soon to add 10 rock nems!!), oh, and a fire shrimp, and a serpent star.

Feeding: Rods rarely... target feeding homemade puree, occasionally.
Dosing: Vit C of course!

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Justt so I don't miss the check-in here is a quick and poorly taken shot of my frag. Currently sitting in a "Not Your Mama's" 18x18 AIO running a small skimmer and K1. I dose a whole lot of different things on a completely randomly way. Flow is an mj900. Lit by coralcompulsion 20k dimmable par 38. random moonlight strip. 100w heater. On RKE controller for expirementation purposes.
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Initial check in.

24"x16"x12" acrylic frag tank made by Will with glass-holes overflow 20L sump with Reef Octopus NWB-110 skimmer quiet one 1200 return pump 120w ebay chinese light koralia nano 425&240.

Two clowns a sixline wrasse some hermits and snails.

Feed mysis and pellets.

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System:
-93 gallon Cube, 2x 20 gallon long sumps
-Refugium (chaeto, LR, sand, copepod heaven)
-Flow
-Return pump with 2 heads
-2x 1350gph Korella
-750gph Korella
-Lights
-Two IT2060's from the group buy!
-Filters (other than LR, Sand, and Refug)
-filter bag
-Eshopps SC120 Skimmer
-Livestock; Powder Brown Tang, two Clownfish, African Midas Blenny, Purple Fire Fish, Watchman Goby, Red Knobby Starfish (might not be the right name for it), Fire shrimp, Coral Banded Shrimp, 3x Sexy Shrimp, Purple Reef Lobster, and the CUC (Turbos, Astrea, hermits).
-Corals; 2 Acan small colonies, 2 birdsnest, Galaxea, giant LT mushrooms, and tons of zoas (and I don't know hardly any of the names!).

Placement: Side of tank on frag rack, medium flow, ~18" from waterline, ~21" from lights.

Dosing: 2part
 
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Am I too late?

Here is my frag on my sand bed.

I have a 28 gal nano cube with a metal halide hqi setup. 14k bulb. Nothing else for lights.

I feed it phytoplankton every other day. I also dose fuel twice per week.

The tank is stock. My polyp just opened up. My goby has been upsetting it.

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